Dr Wai Yoong

Mr Wai Yoong (MBBCh Belf, MD London, FRCOG UK) is a consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologist at North Middlesex University Hospital London and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London and Associate Professor at St George’s International School of Medicine. He received his general O&G training in Birmingham and London and completed a Urogynaecology Fellowship in Sydney, Australia. He was also Clinical Research Fellow at the Royal Free Hospital, London and was granted his MD degree by the University of London. His special interests are pelvic floor surgery, day case vaginal hysterectomy, neuromodulation for overactive bladder syndrome, surgical management of postpartum haemorrhage and Human Factors in healthcare. He is the senior organiser of the RCOG Masterclass in Management of Massive Obstetric Haemorrhage and senior founder trustee of Haemorrhage After Childbirth Foundation, a charity dedicated to teaching skills to doctors and midwives on how to manage obstetric haemorrhage. Along with his team, he has further taught MOH management skills in Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, China, Spain, Greece, Tanzania and Canada, where they effectively conducted “training the trainers” workshops. He was the past RCOG National Convenor of Basic Practical Skills Course and is on the Editorial Board of The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (TOG), as well as the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He leads a team of clinicians partnering with British Airways Flight Training to deliver a collaborative aviation-healthcare Human Factors training course using flight simulators and interactive facilitation to reduce medical errors (see: https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/baft/human-factors/ClinicalHumanFactors). In 2014, Wai was awarded the Sims Black Travelling Professorship by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to teach Basic Surgical Skills and PPH management in Jordan. In 2018, he was given the Bernhard Baron Travelling Scholarship to learn about the surgical management of morbidly adherent placenta with Professor Jose Palacios in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has published 133 papers in peer review journals on subjects such as vaginal surgery, surgical management of PPH, human factors, neuromodulation and enhanced recovery.

Female incontinence Vaginal and pelvic floor surgery Myomectomy Hysterectomy Laparoscopic surgery Hysteroscopy Cystoscopy